Standby Battery Life on W10

[wardo5757]

I've pissed and moaned a few times here that battery life in standby is horrible. I usually put my SP3 in my bag and head to work, a lot of days it doesn't come out of my bag. On those days I pull out my Surface and see I only have 50% or so remaining after 8 or 9 hours on standby. Needless to say that sucks bad!
I looked in the new Battery settings and just notice that MS has added the ability to meter what apps are using battery, turns out for me, the standby battery hog is Iheartradio and Edge. Iheartradio used 35% of my battery today and I haven't used it in weeks, Edge had 21%, I did surf a little this morning during my constitutional so I will have to wait and see if it's eating my battery in the background or not. Needless to say I've disabled Iheart from running in the background and a few others.
Anyone else have this issue of apps eating up there standby battery?

 

[BGrewer]

I know its annoying that battery life on standby is rubbish, well on Windows 10 anyway. I've noticed that Edge is using 31.7% of battery, and for some strange reason Word is using 9.2% battery even though Word isn't open!

 

[wardo5757]

I know its annoying that battery life on standby is rubbish, well on Windows 10 anyway. I've noticed that Edge is using 31.7% of battery, and for some strange reason Word is using 9.2% battery even though Word isn't open!

Same here with Edge. I disabled it from running in the background but then nothing will continue playing or running in edge when minimized, so it's been enabled again.

 

[Christopher Senn1]

guess put it in sleep mode? will that help?

 

[Grodelj]

My solution to this crappy behaviour is, that I always close edge when I am finished using SP.

 

[James8561]

try removing anything unnecessary from lock screen notification

 

[donebrasko]

Mine dies quickly even in sleep mode

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[wardo5757]

for me, after the last firmware update, battery life got much better, much! But the damn thing STILL gets hot in standby sitting in my bag, WTF?

 

[Stanleywinston]

I'm finding that my surface no longer seems to go into that deeper sleep where it would come up with the surface logo when you turned it back on. I figure that is the reason for bad standby battery life. I can't find out how to turn it back on though

 

[Stanleywinston]

Not sure if this is the same issue but I worked out my problem. Hibernate was disabled due to an issue with the hiberfile. This was stopping it deep sleeping after 4 hours and continuing to drain. Fixed the hiberfile and now all lovely

 

[Stanleywinston]

Forgot to mention that this seemed to have been caused by doing a system restore from the image downloaded from the Ms site

 

[Captpt]

I never had to set my SP3 to hibernate with W8, now I am forcing myself to shutdown instead of letting it sleep as I did with W8.. Truly disappointed in W10 battery life with my SP3.. same goes for W10 on my phone..
PS:I don't use edge AT ALL so that's not the issue here..